The National Inpatient Medication Chart (NIMC) requires prescribers to endorse administration times. What is the rationale for this?
A. When nursing staff write the administration times, evidence suggests that there is potential for the frequency to be misread or administration times to be incomplete. When a prescriber writes the administration times the need for interpretation of instructions by a second party is removed and therefore the risk of the drug being administered at the wrong frequency is reduced. During the pilot study, the incidence of administration times being different from the prescribed frequency reduced from 10.5 per cent to 2.9 per cent following implementation of the NIMC.
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